Talk:Discovery 1 School

Merger
Ok, Discovery 1 School and Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti have merged to become Ao Tawhiti. But does that mean that the Wikipedia articles also have to merge? Where does it say that? Should we not have a discussion about that first? I would have thought that if the previous schools both met notability criteria, they are sufficiently different to the now merged school, hence their pages should remain. I'm happy to be convinced otherwise. , any thoughts?  Schwede 66  23:28, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't mind if there's a single article covering the history of both schools and the new school going forward, or three separate articles. did the merge and might like to comment.- gadfium 02:39, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I thought this would be a natural progression for the articles but I understand why consultation would have been appropriate.
 * Neither the Discovery or Unlimited articles were particularly informative on their own, but as a merged article, they paint a clearer picture overall of how Ao Tawhiti exists and how it evolved from the original Discovery 1 concept. We need to look at this particular case, not as three separate schools, but as one unique school, evolved from a special character concept by the Discovery Learning Trust from the late 90s, and currently existing as a single school; Ao Tawhiti. It isn't unfair to argue that, even as separate schools, Unlimited and Discovery 1 have always been a combined force.
 * Discovery 1 and Unlimited have closed. Anyone looking for a history of either will be expecting the full story, and that includes the combined evolution of each school through to Ao Tawhiti. Both the Unlimited article and the Discovery articles shared core aspects of history, because they were the product of the same organization (Discovery Learning Trust) and followed the same basic blueprint, co-existing on the same street. I feel it makes sense that the articles are fused, otherwise we'll have multiple articles borrowing from the same sources and displaying the same information, and heavily linking to each other. Melonbob (talk) 10:51, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I just want to add that although Ao Tawhiti is officially a single school, it is still operated in a way that splits it into Discovery and Unlimited branches (hence multiple directors representing specific parts of the school). This may change in the short future, but I feel it is incorrect to state that Ao Tawhiti is "sufficiently different" as the modelling of the school still heavily reflects the previous existence of each school respectively, and is unlikely to change. Melonbob (talk) 16:07, 9 November 2014 (UTC)